World civilization assignment

Write a 1.5-2 page paper comparing the von Sivers description of either the Incas or the Aztecs to the von SIvers description of one of the civilizations we have encountered in earlier weeks.  Where are the consistencies in treatment?  Where are the treatments different in what they look at?  What do you think explains the differences?

 

Aztecs/Incas links: 

M 23-VI     Americas, The Maya VON SIVERS, 177-188

                        Read first 10 printed pages of Popol Vuh, available at

                                    http://www2.fiu.edu/~northupl/populvuh.html

 

T 24-VI    Americas , Inca and Aztecs  VON SIVERS 188-193, 496-515

                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html

                        http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1540cieza.html

 

W 25-VI          Christianization & Byzantium VON SIVERS, 212-218 ,311-314

                        Justinian  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/procop-anec1.html

                        Icons: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/johndam-icons.html

 

R 26-VI Mediaeval Europe  VON SIVERS 338-371

Einhard Life of Charlemagne at                  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/einhard1.html

Pope Gregory VII Dictatus Papae

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/g7-dictpap.html

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Links from earlier weeks:

T 27-V:  Paleo/Neolithic: VON SIVERS Skim 4-33; read carefully: 10-13, 21-28, 37-40, 62-64.

               visit Lascaux Cave: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml

               Read Smithsonian article on Gobekli Tepe

                        http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/30706129.html

               

W 28-V: Mesopotamia, VON SIVERS 40-47 plus box on 48-49

                Read Epic of Gilgamesh, Prologue + Tablets I – III at

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/temple1.html

    Read Prologue, Laws 1-50, Epilogue of Code of Hammurabi in “Text” section at

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp

 

R 29-V:  Egypt, VON SIVERS, 47-52, 56-57

View & read about Narmer Palette, both reverse and obverse sides at 

            http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/narmer/index.html 

Look at Magical Bricks and Coffin of Meresamun at

http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/highlights/egypt.html

Read full article on Tut & DNA at

                        http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/hawass-text

*** Stick to these links**